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Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I do not disagree with Senator McGreehan on most issues but I cannot stress enough that for someone to take a child that does not belong to them without parental consent - someone who is not acting in loco parentisand is without any legal status - and then to arrange and facilitate the adoption of that child is not the end of game or a process but is simply illegal. Children have...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister because he set it out very well, and that is the great thing about debating these issues. I am a lot clearer following his explanation, and I want to acknowledge that. People in opposition are not always perceived to be supportive of Government, and I am in this case. The Minister has set out clearly some of the issues. However, Senator Higgins has made a point for...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I will focus on two issues and speak to amendments Nos. 23 and 24, which are extensive and cover many areas. I will focus on a recurring theme in both amendments, that of the details applicable in terms of vaccines. Amendment No. 23 reads: “the relevant person’s medical records from birth until the time of placement, including x-rays, tests, vaccines”. Amendment No. 24...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Yes.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for many of the clarifications around that. Amendment No. 24 refers to "records of any vaccine trials in which the relevant person was a research subject". Senator Seery Kearney touched on it as well. I was not necessarily touching on medical vaccines or ones given by consent. I am talking about research, as does that amendment. The House should remember we now know...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, to the Seanad Chamber. This Commencement matter relates to the burning of green waste and, in particular, the derogation he is aware the Minister signed in January or February. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This issue has exercised that committee but it has also exercised farmers...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: As I said, I am a member of the Oireachtas joint committee. It was my understanding from the paper briefing I have that a group would be established. We have now heard it will be a study. There is a very subtle difference between a focused named group of people and a study. There is some ambiguity about that. The Minister of State might ask the Department to come back to us on that. If...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Waste Management (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister of State.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank Senator Pauline O'Reilly and the Green Party Senators for using their Private Members' time to initiate this debate because it is important and people go very slowly. Despite what people might say, there is huge resistance to controlling posters. I am in favour of the substantial controlling of public posters. The product used in...

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I did not say that.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: This is great.

Seanad: Regulation of Display of Electoral and Polling Posters and Other Advertisements Bill 2022: Second Stage (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: They thought that too.

Seanad: Childcare Provision: Statements (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Minister for his opening statement and for coming to the House.I thank the Leader and her office for organising this engagement. Many Members requested a debate or statements on childcare and I thank the Leader for facilitating these statements on childcare provision. It is important that we are increasingly learning of the importance of early experiences, development and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: First, I wish to welcome the witnesses to the meeting. I am great advocate of NOAC. It does amazing work. If there is any shortcoming, it is that there is a deficit in how we highlight the work of NOAC. I am glad the witnesses are here today. Representatives from LGAS, including Ms Niamh Larkin, will be attending the second session. I think the two organisations are inextricably linked....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Will the witnesses comment on their work on regional assemblies, which falls within their remit? There are major inconsistencies in the local authority corporate plans. By the very nature of local authorities, there are different demographics and areas, and there are reasons for that, but will they touch on that? Some of these issues over-layer with auditing systems but alarm bells must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Who decides what is on the commission's agenda? Who prioritises that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Oversight Audit Commission’s 2021 Annual Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: What is the relationship of NOAC with the local government audit service? I think it is a good organisation. Having looked through every one of the 31 local government audit reports, it strikes me that there are huge shortcomings on the property asset register and that many serious concerns have been raised which we will tease out later. The usual chief executives' response is that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I thank the Vice Chairman and members present for facilitating me. I have to go up to the Seanad Chamber after this but I will be back. I welcome Ms Larkin and Mr. Murphy and thank them for their ongoing positive engagement with me. They are always available and if I have a particular query I have always found them to be very receptive and helpful in furnishing me with any details to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: I have great faith and confidence in the LGAS, which does a very good job. That tees up all of these questions for us. We have all of these reports and they tee up all of these questions. When we go back and look historically at the reports, we see this re-occurring theme, like the fixed asset property register, and then the lame excuses from chief executives, who come out and say,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Audit Service Report: Discussion (17 May 2022)

Victor Boyhan: Yes, but are all 31 on the website?